Norbert Colon

I presume leaving your foot in after every single tackle is just 'part of the game' i suppose - I have never seen a worse bunch of clogging plodders for a long time - premeditated nasty bastards and what makes it worse is that it worked and we played into their hands - cant stand Pulis - he is a horrible twat in a shit hat

The penny has got to drop - this system does not work - its playing into the hands of the opposition - and Nolan is too slow - it just fucks me off that we lost to shite like stoke and blackpool

I could add another question to those ; Why do you play Nolan? I'm sure he has covered that one, Norbert. I don't think it can be asked enough times tbh

I could add another question to those ; Why do you play Nolan?

Barton was Ok today - played some cracking long balls and was always available - not really a problem - I also thought Colo was decent and didnt do much wrong - Perch was awful and Williamson is constantly being dragged out of position to cover for him

Yeah, he doesn't understand positioning at all and at one point he just ran out of play with the ball under no pressure! And i agree with you Hughton deserves the chance to learn from mistakes, realise who has to be dropped, but he has to get more out of us at home to poor opposition. So far its early days but it appears Hughton can pull out some cracking singings like Tiote and Ben Arfa, but that when he goes for a bargain we get Perch and Best! KNowing that Stoke sit back and counter and are a farly conservative side (only 6 away wins in 2 seasons) we should have gone Shola/Carroll upfront and dropped Nolan. Is the correct answer - same as the Blackpool game , playing an away game formation at home against poor opposition. Lack of urgency in the first half to go for the jugular and Nolan constantly being behind the forward play - he is supposed to be the support striker ffs , he was fukin nowhere all game, Routledge was going inside too much and the less said about the second half subs the better, Tiote was a beast and ben arfa was a constant threat - Krul was fuckin awful as well

That is spot on - you would think one of the various coaches who have worked with would have realised that he needs to be riled up - its all psychological he's just been too damn comfortable here and lacked that extra couple of percent in both training and gameplay - that performance last night annoyed me because if he is capable of that he should show it more often not just when his contract is up for renewal or once in a blue moon when he can be arsed

I think you would be hard pushed to find comparable quality for 6mill when Bartons playing well - has been great so far and I hope he keeps it up and stays with us for a long time - everybody deserves a chance to right their wrongs and maybe he is just a retarded chav who happens to be good at football, people can change - have you never seen 'Educating Rita'?

You're rigght - but a clean sheet and an away win to a team like everton is tremendous - the difference in midfield seemed the key

hollands centre half in midfield, osman out right where he's completely fucking useless and distin on the pitch this is why evertonians are losing patients with moyes, as i said in the other thread i simple fucking knob like myself can see whats wrong, why cant a premiership manager? May I take this opportunity Gooser, to ask you to pass on to your fellow Toffees a heartfelt sentiment from Newcastle; Have that with bells on Thankyou. email it to david moyes the cunt needs telling Fair play mate - you were right

Agreed and I wouldn't be surprised if it was routledge - if he drops a midfielder it will be Smith and then we can all enjoy the amazing disappearing act that is Nolan trying to play centrally - The changes he made on saturday were very worrying -I can understand that he wanted the Krandts on for his pace to try to turn their back four but surely you go like for like and remove Nolan-then change smith for Tiote a bit later on - Personally I would have put ben arfa on and not lovenkrandts - when it comes down to it these decisions will cost him his job not the players

Tremendous

I'd be putting in that the number 3 is fukin bollocks and everthing should go down his side - how we didn't take advantage of that is still boiling my piss

Spot on - it was daft playing what was, essentially, last seasons away formation at home to Blackpool - it left Carroll isolated (he looked like he was carrying an injury) and allowed charlie adam to stroll about picking passes ala paul scholes. Routledge was giving that number three nightmares every time he ran at him so what did we do? play it down the middle time after time. Smith should be dropped now - I doubt Nolan will be dropped as well but he had some good chances yesterday and fluffed them - and perch is an absolute liability

whats being a newcastle fan from newcastle or being a newcastle fan not from newcastle got to do with whether you appreciate keegan? It doesn't really, but it did seem that a lot of the patter slagging Keegan off was from young foreign idiots who got their understanding of Keegan from reading papers and believing the Keegan the quitter quits again line that was being peddled. Which is where Stevie is coming from. I mean I don't get annoyed about stuff I read on message boards, but some of the stuff completely dismissing Keegan from know nowt 20 year olds from fucking Sweden or Singapore was pretty infuriating. Some from Leeds, Histon, fuckin Chester Le Street, Cramlington and fuckin South Shields iirc. I couldn't care less about what the foreign cunts think, but when it's people from the NE oh dear. I don't remember the opposition, u mite Stevie, but we beat them 2-0 it was early nineties and Steve Howey was a striker and scored both from crosses from Alan Thompson, I think Steve Watson got a game and that young cm from gateshead - Kevin Scott was captain and we were utter shite and doomed for relegation but that was a highlight of the season so far - if you didn't know the low point that we had reached and the inevitable abyss into which we were about to fall then you cannot appreciate the brilliance of Keegans managerial ability and Halls financial nouse.

Everyone of them is a cunt, its all clueless younguns though to be fair, kids under 25 who frequent Newcastle Online, and people not from this area. That's not being patronising its a fuckin fact. What they'll never get is KK changed our club like not one other person on earth could, he gave us self belief, and confidence, he raised the stature of the club 10 fold in not even 2 years. You get some younger lads who understand all this because as entwined in the club as what we are, some of them though, their views come just short of deserving a slap imo. ffs I dunno, I'm kind of with Stevie on this one. I'm not actually from the area (grew up on Co. Durham/N. Yorks border) but I was living in Newcastle 93-98. One of the things I always tell people about is the buzz around the city during those Keegan years. I reckon if you're not from the area, or at least experienced that buzz then it's hard to appreciate the lift that Keegan gave to the whole area. It's ridiculous to attribute everything that was good during that time with Keegan though and as I've already stated, I was like a kid again when he came back last time. Nobody in football can get me that excited about the game. He came at the right time and had money to spend. The club had been taken over by people with ambition. It was a lot of things coming together, including the tidal wave of new money and interest that SKY brought with it. Much as I love the Beatles, there's no one single thing or person that made them brilliant. Same with us in the early 90s. Without Keegan it doesn't happen imo. We end up as a club with a respected support with the same stature as say Villa, in a box like stadium 34000 like Boro sponsored by AVEC and Errea. John Hall was a businessman nothing more, made millions from the club, I don't begrudge him it, but all he did was see an opportunity, people like FFS and JFF put the Commercial swing in to the club. Keegan was 90% of what happened, probably more. Exactly, without KK it may not have worked at all. We could easilly have been relegated to the old 3rd division in which case we'd be fucked, or another manager keeps us up but we never really go anywhere and John Hall et al lose interest or don't invest the money they should. After all KK threatened to walk to get money out of Hall in the beginning! And as has been said if you lived in the city and grew up with the Keegan team, especially if you'd spent years watching the shite before it, there was a buzz throughout the city, football fans and everyone else along with them that has never been matched. And to be fair i don't think Stevie was saying anyone from outside the area was a cunt, just the ones who slate Keegan, same as everyone from the city who slates him is a cunt as well! Absolutely true Keegan was like a man posessed and he had total belief that Newcastle could and should be one of the best clubs in the country - he put his heart and soul into it which unfortunately ended up being too much. Anyone who does not understand the impact ok KK is an utter, utter bell end

I went to the ghana game at stadium MK before the wc2010 and was looking forward to seeing Gyan - don't want to tempt fate but he was nowt ower - poor first touch and accuracy but he was very athletic - wouldn't have rated him over 6mill tbh

Rocket Way? Laurel avenue

Would be nice

Not sure if Everton have the cash - the hammers maybe an option - they have a liking for below par performers with above average egos

Only from a free-kick though because he spends most of open play taking up positions where his team mates would find it hard to pick him out. Even in the Championship he had zero confidence. It wouldn't be so bad but he's a woeful defender. Nani would've taken him to the cleaners last night. Ryan would have struggled through lack of pace - Perch was ropey but at least has a turn of foot - Routledge needs to get a grip and start playing to team instructions - I would give Perch a few more games but he does look a bit of a liability

That's fuckin ridiculous to write off Carroll in such a manner - what happened to wanting the young english players to establish themselves in prem teams - fuck that lets just knacker the lads confidence so we can get a cheap foreigner in (cos they're much better) - epitomises the narrow minded attitude of the wank press - totally ignores the graft and skill all gamein attack and defense but uses one missed chance to end his prem career - what a cock. And imho the fact that Smith and in particular Nolan tired so quickly allowed Scholes the time to tear us apart - Barton was the only proper midfielder - Smith is positionally awful and slow and Nolan is past it - we need a box to box gary speed/robbie lee type and a link up man for carroll. It was interesting to note how much the manchester defense crapped themselves when the ball went in their box - particularly when Shola came on to help Carroll

Made some bizarre tactical decisions like playing Cuellar at right back and then watching him get raped everytime and produce nothing going forward whilst Habib sat on the bench - weird - but overall he took a nothing club as high as they could expect to go - aside from the relegation shenanigans which have resulted in alot of toon fans despising them I could honestly say I took very little notice of them and unless they make an astonishing appointment I would fully expect them to return to their mid - lower table ignomy. If they were a colour it would be beige.

Aye flog him only to see him return to score a hatful of 30 yard screamers against us everytime

From what I can gather from forest fans/forums he seemed to be a bit of a whipping boy for alot of them - I watched him a few times last season and I think he played pretty well but it is so hard to judge if his confidence has been shot by the boo boys - in Chrissy we trust - at least Calderwood has worked with him closely so hopefully that should bode well.